Publications
Lehigh faculty seminar in philosophy – The completeness of metaphysical fundamentalism
Audio/Video Lectures
This was a talk I gave on February 12th 2010 to the Lehigh philosophy department’s faculty seminar.
Lehigh Faculty Seminar Audio
Logic and formal semantics for epistemology
Article/Chapters
LogicandFormalSemanticsforEpistemologyLongversion
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology
Books
with Paco Calvo (February 2009)
The Individuality of Organisms and Artifacts
Article/Chapters
In recent decades, advances in molecular biology have made the artificial selection of biological functions a familiar part of contemporary civilization:...
Foundations and Philosophy of Physics
Books
with Juan Ferret (forthcoming 2008)
A Computational Modeling Strategy for Levels
Article/Chapters
Rather than taking the ontological fundamentality of an ideal microphysics as a starting point, this paper sketches an approach to the problem of...
A Sketch of the History and Methodology of Ontology in the Analytic Tradition
Article/Chapters
Part 1: Introduction
The analytic tradition is sometimes criticized as being narrowly focused on language, logic or conceptual analysis to the detriment...
Computational Models of Emergent Properties
Article/Chapters
1. Introduction
Computational modeling plays an increasingly important explanatory role in cases where we
investigate systems or problems that exceed...
Masses of Formal Philosophy
Books
(Edited with V. Hendricks) Automatic Press: London (2006)
Detecting emergence in the interplay of networks
Article/Chapters
Abstract
We present a formal framework for the identification and
interpretation of emergent properties in environments where
agents participate in...
A Computational Modeling Strategy for Levels
Article/Chapters
Rather than taking the ontological fundamentality of an ideal microphysics as a starting point, this
paper sketches an approach to the problem of...
Formal Philosophy; Five Questions
Books
(Edited with V. Hendricks) Automatic Press: London (2005)
Intuition and Philosophical Methodology
Article/Chapters
Intuition serves a variety of roles in contemporary philosophy. This paper provides a
historical discussion of the revival of intuition in the 1970s,...